The Osceola times., 1887-08-13
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL


asked TO he placed m a cell at the station
house at Cedar Rapids on the night Of the
Cd. He was accordingly locked up. At
five O'Clock on the morning of the I'd he shot
his brains out while in a cell. He was a
widower and about forty years Of age.
On the ID DR.. ID. +. Salmon, chief of the
Bureau OF Animal Industry, left Washing.
ton for Delaware and Ulster counties, N.
Y, to personally investigate the outbreak
of contagious pleuro-pneumonia among
cattle in those counties, and direct the
work Of its suppression.
PATRICK O'BRIES, member OF the British
Parliament from North Monaghan. has
signifled his intention to interrogate Mr..
Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, as to
the reasons for placing Mr.. Patrick A
Collins, of Boston, under the surveillance
OF detectives, and will direct bis inquiries
TO ascertaining whether the government
is responsible for the Outrage.
OK the 3d George Bidwell, the noted
forger, was arrested In New York, by or.
der of Inspector Byrnes, as he was landed
from European steamer. Bidwell was
recently pardoned by the British Govern.
ment on account OF ill.health, having
served fourteen years in Dartmoor prison.
he wEs subsequently released by Judge
Duffy.
OK the I'd DIR. Mckenzie performed an
other operation on the throat Of the Ger
man Crown Prince. He has advised the
Prince to sojourn for awhile in Scotland.
Mr.. LAuRIER, the new Liberal leader in
Canada, is credited with desiring more
conciGatory policy toward the United
States.
I'm ha Ian. r,,ss I'll
States Consul at st. Thomas, Ont, died
from injuries received by being run over
by hose carriage during the recent rail-
way accident and resulting fire.
A MEETING of Liberal Unionists was held
in London on the 4th to devise means for
checking the increase in Gladstonian votes
at elections TO ill parliamentary va
CANOES.
JUpGE CRAIG, OF the Illinois Supreme
Court, denies the report that he has stated
that the court would refuse the condemned
Chicago Anarchists new trial.
The press OF New York City almost
unanimously agree with George William
Curtis, speech that the Democrats are run.
ming the National Administration.
PROHIBITION was defeated by an over.
whelming vote in the Texas election on the
4th. The returns so far are meager, but
are mostly one way.
LEROY d. BRowS, late Superintendent
Of Public Instruction of Ohio, has been
elected president of the State University
of Nevada, at salary Of 1900 year and
travelling expenses. He Is thirty.eight
years old and native OF Ohio.
KING KALAKuA OF Hawaii signed the
Constitution on July 10. This deprived
kalakua Of monarchial powers, and leaves
only the power TO draw salary and grant
pardons. Ex.Premier Gibson escaped on
bark sailing from Honolulu, and is now on
his way TO San Francisco.
LORD GEORGE DRuMMoNp, grandson and
heir OF the Earl of Perth, died on the 9th
at st. Luke's Hospital. New York, OF con-
sumption. The deceased noblcman became
alienated from his family before he came
VI age by contracting a marriage which
his relatives disapproved. His wife and
children are left destitute.
A PROMINENT Chicago gentleman. on q
pleasure trip, claims to have met Mctiar.
igle In Quebec on the 5th. man sup
posed to be McGarigle, il is said, took pas.
sage on that day on a sailing vessel bound
FOR Gibraltar, passing himself off as an in.
valid, although il was well known that he
wes in perfect health.
A DUEL took place on the 9TH below the
slaughter. house, in St Bernard Parish, La,
between Mr.. Emile Revoire, one OF the
editors of L'OpiaiOR. and Larrieu, Jr.,
president Of the club de la Democratique
Francois. The duel was fought with
small swords and the result Of the combat
was that Mr.. Larrieu received n slight
wound in the chest.
PARDAw WARsLEY. the celebrated Union
spy of the Shenandoah valley, is dead
He passed away at his home at Foster
Brook, N. ", ON the Sd, aged sixty-seven
years.
KING KALAKAUA's deposed Prime Min
lister, Gibson, who made his escape from
Honolulu on the bark Speckles, arrived al
San Francisco on the 9TH
On the 9Th the Emperors of Austria and
Germany met at Gasteiu.
ON the 9th the Irish Land bill passed It's
third reading.
THE Unionst leaders in Great Britain
have determined ON uneompromising hos
tility to Gladstone's Irish policy from this
time on.
THE King of Holland is growing old ano
feeble, and, having no direct heir, tn,
question OF the succession is agitating moi
only the Dutch, bat their German neigh
bors.
PRESIDENT WmFoBD WOODRUFF of tn,
Mormon apostles, has temporarily assumed
the leadership of the affairs of the Latter
Day Saints.
JEAN DuRAsp, whose father was Com.
modore in the early American navy, died
in New York on the ith in abiect poverty
ut Of Er.s g,l
failing patriotic action, will rest in pau
per's grave.
CHARLES II. LoRING, engineer. in chief
has resigned as head Of the Bureau OF
Steam Engineering in the Navy Depart
ment, and Chief Engineer Geo, ". Mel.
vile, of Arctic exploration fame, has been
appointed in his place.
The accident TO Mrs. Logan having
proved of a more serious character than
was at first imagined, she will be confined
TO her couch for many weeks yet Al
though the second setting of the injured
shoulder was successful, much time
and strength was wasted by
anskillful treatment at the first.
FIRST ASSISTANT PosTyAsTER-GKNERAI
STEVENSON has accepted an invitstion "a
deliver the annual address at an sgricult.
ural fair Of the counties comprising this
Fifth Congressional district Of Illinois, tc
be held at Woodstock, 1lclienry County
The address will be delivered on the 27th
Of September next.
On the 7th, when Sherman W. Knevals
law-partner of the late President Arthur
arrived from Europe by the Servia, he
was met by the announcement that hi.
only son, Russell W. Knevals, twenty-five
years old, was dead. Young Knevals wa:
found dead In ais bed in the morning. Hs
probably died of heart disease